Anthony3419

Anthony3419

I like this design. The only part I have a problem with is at the very end of the strand. It just ends. Maybe using a halftone method, you could have it fade out. Just an idea. Either way I still like it. GMV!

lucky1988

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spidermatt

My friend and i made a list of things we want to do this year. One of hers is buy a shirt on woot. I will deffinattly be recomending this one if (hahah "if") it wins. Awsome color scheme and absolutly flawless design. I haven't voted on a woot shirt yet and this is my first. oh btw, what does GMV mean?

BootsBoots

marypuppe wrote:Seriously Boots, I don't know how you manage to create my favorite designs in EVERY derby!!!
And now my husband has started voting for your shirts, partly because he likes them, but also because your my "best friend" ahuhuhu!

littlemisssmilee

Anthony3419 wrote:I like this design. The only part I have a problem with is at the very end of the strand. It just ends. Maybe using a halftone method, you could have it fade out. Just an idea. Either way I still like it. GMV!

I actually was thinking about doing that... unfortunately I have yet to learn how to do a halftone correctly! Once I learn though, I'm sure I'll use them (when necessary).

Thanks for all the super comments/suggestions! I'll consider these things for future designs

Kat4

spidermatt wrote:My friend and i made a list of things we want to do this year. One of hers is buy a shirt on woot. I will deffinattly be recomending this one if (hahah "if") it wins. Awsome color scheme and absolutly flawless design. I haven't voted on a woot shirt yet and this is my first. oh btw, what does GMV mean?

AdderXYU

eHalcyon wrote:gizmoduck isn't arguing that the implementation is the same. He's saying that the idea BEHIND the design is the same. By misrepresenting his argument, you yourself are the one using the strawman argument.

I agree with gizmo and Josephus here. I don't know much about TMNT but from the screencap that was posted, I have to say that there is nothing new here. As others have said, there is no commentary or parody. It's basically the same as in the movie (and the comic?), only drawn in a different style.

No copyright infringement, so I'm sure woot will print it. Props to DF for thinking of putting this on a shirt. I also appreciate the style of the linework, even though I'm not fond of the distressing.

One more reason I'd love woot to have a more active role in selection. Anyone can draw something familiar. It takes effort and imagination to make it into something creative. Two things the voters don't have. I find it incredibly disappointing that the designer here keeps going back and forth between trying to pull out solid ideas, and just literally representing something on a shirt without even trying to mix things up.

I am a little amused that Josephus would be on that side though. He's like the poster child for not understanding parody.

mjbleck

Sorry kids, the "tuck the shirt" comment was because I thought it would be funny to wear a blank shirt save a round bulbous head (with eyes!) coming out of my pants. Step back, I don't know how big this thing is gonna get...

AdderXYU

HeartlineTwist wrote:The only thing about this design that I can't understand or get behind is why Adder seemed to like it after his multiple tirades against simplicity, anime, and stick figures. No insults because I LIKE the stick figure shirts, but this is about a half step up from it.

You don't get it because you didn't understand my multiple tirades to begin with.

It's hardly high art, but what it is is a smart design choice. It has a concept that required thinking up and uses the shirt well. The style, while simple, is distinctive... while it has similarities to Boots' waterslide ponderer, you couldn't mistake the two (unlike Pom and Poko's entries, which may as well be the same person).

It's not my favorite thing in the derby by a long shot, but it is my favorite in the fog because of how it works the shirt. Sort of like how you might not like an actor's offscreen persona, but you can't help but enjoy how he inhabits a role. This design just works as a shirt, largely due to it's self-referentiality. Stick figures don't work as anything (and when you can create a more distinctive bubbly guy like this with not so much effort, why would you choose something as inherently ugly as stick figures anyway?), anime is trite and mindless, and simplicity is only bad when it's synonymous with thoughtless. Careful readers would note that I've praised many a simpler piece because its concept was solid or else its lines, few though they might be, were well chosen. They'll also note I've laid into a number of "artistic" shirts for making no statement and bringing nothing interesting to the table... lines impersonating artistry. It might be unexpected, but it shouldn't be that hard to grasp.

Copo

PhilSandifer wrote:Yes, because it's not completely obvious what characters these are. *eyeroll*

You're damn right it's not obvious. They're extremely vague turtles. There is no indication that they're a specific character from a comic/movie/cartoon/etc. It wasn't about knowing what the turtles represent; the person whose post I quoted had stated something about this lacking parody, and how some pikachu shirt had more parody and got rejected. I was stating that this didn't require parody, it's not using anything with a copyright.

I really don't care at all. I didn't vote for it; I'm not planning on buying it. I understand how a business works though, and realize my self-centered interests are meaningless to them. Therefore, I also understand that were I to get angry at the artist for his shirt's winning a voting contest, I would be borderline infatuated.

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